On the straight and narrow path, there are simply no corners to be cut.

We can hold to the iron rod even if others slip away and a few end up mocking us from "the great and spacious building."

As parenting declines, the need for policing increases. There will always be a shortage of police if there is a shortage of effective parents! Likewise, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.

Those who believe for a while make only a brief tour in the kingdom, though thereafter they often feel qualified to inform those who know even less about the Church; but the fact is they were really only tourists - not natives who really knew the kingdom's countryside.

It's service, not status, that counts.

I thank the Father that His Only Begotten Son did not say in defiant protest at Calvary, "My body is my own!" I stand in admiration of women today who resist the "fashion of abortion, by refusing to make the sacred womb a tomb!"

The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.